Let's Grow Akron

Overcoming urban blight and alleviating hunger in the community

Description

Let's Grow Akron is a non-profit organization that creates and supports community food gardens in neighborhoods with limited access to fresh food. Let’s Grow Akron has a 30 year history of community organizing around food justice issues and providing technical assistance in methods of using urban lands for food production. Educational programs empower people to grow their own food, prepare healthy meals from the harvest, preserve the surplus and ultimately increase food security.